eaiials tap 45 a RK TE am coma RS ae # ae - sylvanians. _ the Air Force. _ the elusive B2 vitamin. canes Page 4 THE STRATFORD MIRROR Air Force Writer (Continued from Page 1) Sea biscuit of Saturday night, the lab is not interested. ~The lab, which is situated in the biology building of McGill University, would make an excellent setting for a Hollywood super-thriller such as "Frankenstein's mother-in-law." The room is lined with test tubes, flasks, fine scales and twisted glass tubes with strange-colored gasses being in- termittently released. The only draw- backs for a horror setting are the nu- _ tritional experts who work in the maze of gadgets. They are all salt-of-the- earth types -- no long hair, no beards . --jJust a bunch of erks who consider their work interesting but routine. Granted they look a little studious and academic sitting on high stools work- ing with intricate analytical equip- ment, but when noon hour comes, they saunter out just erks. The first step in analyzing the food .is done through the courtesy of Fred Waring of Fred Waring and his Penn- When Fred took out a patent on a cocktail shaker with a little propeller in it like an inverted egg-beater, he accidentally made a great contribution to science. This machine, called "Waring Blender," is just right for simulating the action of masticating food. It pulverizes every- _ thing from morning porridge to even- ing hamburger into a chocolate-colored Syrup of mud-pie consistency. This goo is then tested eight differ- _ ent ways -- four vitamins, three min- erals and one caloric analysis. Cpl. Ed Cahill of Brooklyn. N.Y., is the mineral prospector of the goo. Ed Was a chemist with the Philadelphia Quartz Company and is now looking for more minute quantities of miner- als in airmen's grub. He has a more pleasant job of testing fruit juices for These juices arrive in large cans, of which only a small por- tion is tested. It is needless to add that the unused portions are not thrown out. Officer Commanding Riboflavin is Cpl. Ray McCarthy, mighty hunter of In pre-enlist- ment days he found there was more money in running his own scientific health laboratory than in teaching high school in Toronto. After wash- ing out at EFTS, he became an instru- ment mechanic, sax player and a mem- ber of the boxing team of No. 8 SFTS, Hagersville. Now he's back at his Own work, slugging it out with the bugs. _ The results of the tests are com- Piled at the end of the week and veri- fied by Officer Commanding FO. H. E. Woodward, former chemist of D. P. & N.H Food and Drug Laboratories, Toronto. From his desk the data goes to Ottawa where messing and medical ae _ heads confab over the findings. One potentially violet feature of the lab is that the whole outfit is sitting on a powder keg. It was only recently that the lads discovered that the ex- periments and tests for the new Cana- dian secret weapon, R.D.X., a super- explosive, were being carried out just one floor below them. They learned these facts in a hurry when a piece of _ shrapnel was blown through the win- dow and firmly imbedded in the wall of the lab. Whether it's on the road or in an ; _ argument, when you see red, STOP! A little boy's school essay read: "The armistice was signed on Novem- ber 1ith, 1918, and since then we have _ two minutes' peace every year. _ The three-year-old boy had taken his mother's powder puff and was fix- ing hhis face as he had seen her do, when his five-year-old sister grabbed - "You mustn't do that," she said. Oe Stratford's Ten-Y ear Plan Will Cost $800,000 The probability that Stratford will be able to pay for a program of more than $800,000 worth of civic improve- ments of a capital nature in the next 10 years, with a tax rate of 35 mills, was forecast Wednesday night at a meeting of the Stratford Planning and Development Council. The forecast the council's committee on finance and legislation. Mayor J. Waldo Monteith is chairman of the committee, the other members being Ald. J. M. King, F. A. Maples, City Treasurer George McKellar and W. P. Bradshaw. The report was adopted by the council and it was decided to seek an early dis- cussion of the City Council. Ald. J. H. Rodgers, president of the Planning and Development Council, presided over the meeting, which was held in the board room of the City Hall, BACK TO STANDARD ? Page the grievance committee! One of our local officials has a grievance against a radio announcer in Chicago. The local chap has a bedside radio which he switches on when the alarm clock rings. Recently he awoke be- fore the alarm, switched on the radio and heard the announcer give the time as twenty-five minutes to seven, which means twenty-five minutes to eight in Stratford. Thinking he had missed the alarm, the victim got up, went through the usual routine and not un- til after breakfast did he note that his own clock gave the time as one min- ute to seven. Things have come to a pretty pass when a slip of the tongue can do a man in Stratford out of a whole hour in bed! BLUNDERS OF THE MASTER SLEUTHS The victims of your favorite "who- dunits" shouldn't wear those expres- sions of horror, clutch guns, or photo- graph murderers with their eyes, says Dr. LeMoyne Snyder of the Michigan State Police, in a gripping story in The American Weekly with this Sun- day's (Dec. 10) issue of The Detroit Times. Be sure to get The Detroit Sunday Times every week. HYDRO LAMPS 25 - 40 and 60 watt Inside frosted | 5c Each Hydro Shop Phone 460 was part of a preliminary report of report with the 1945 Main Floor CDS - X CANADIAN DEPARTMENT STORES LIMITED Popular Reprints GOING, GOING, GONE by Phoebe Atwood Taylor THE MULBERRY BUSH-- Helen Topping Miller YOUNG SISTER-- by Kathleen Norris THE BAR 20 RIDES AGAIN by .C. E. Mulford OFFICE WIFE-- by Faith Baldwin 59c each Phone 2500 Co-Ordinated Effort (Continued from Page 1) mental and spiritual program having a definite place in it and with all agen- cies in the community having a part in it. Civic bodies are realizing their responsibilities, he pointed out, refer- ring to Toronto, where it is proposed to amalgamate the programs sponsor- ed by the city and the Board of Edu- cation. In that city, he said, it is realized that attached to these public bodies should be the voluntary organ- izations. A certain newspaper editor had cause to admonish his son on account of his reluctance to attend school. "You must go regularly and learn to be a great scholar,' said the fond father encouragingly, "otherwise you can never be an editor, you know. What would you do, for instance, if your paper came out full of mis- takes?" "Father," was the reply, "I'd blame 7em on the printer." And then the father fell on his son's neck and wept for jo. He knew he had a worthy successor for the editor- ial chair. 'o a PRIDE ANO JO¥ FROM4 7 * THE JoYous$ STAGE SENSATION. +. 3 -- DAYS --3 STARTING MONDAY shes. the gleam" 447 aa. a NOLO HARD 0 alo ) HARDING BENCHLEY HALE © MICHAEL cuemiZ'